Yosemite Preview is not the same as Mavericks Preview!

I have the same problem with Preview

Same here, plus the other catastrophic new way to insert these text boxes in Preview... Made a thread as well: Preview app "new" annotation capabilities

Anyone can explain? Please fix this...

On Mavericks, I just annotated red text on an otherwise non-annotated PDF document. The text frame around the annotated text was invisible when saved.

On Yosemite, this PDF opened normally with no border of any kind around the red annotated text. This appears to be working correctly in Preview 8.

You will see from this screen shot that my line color on Mavericks Preview is set to transparent.

This is driving me completely crazy. IS there a way I can download version 7 back so I can use that?

No.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Same Problem:

In Mavericks I was able to edit and add textboxes, print them smoothly and save as regular pdf, here and example:

The very same file saved in mavericks and open after migration in yosemite:

I think something went wrong while updating this app, annotation potitions are completely broken.

I opened some other pdf files annotated in windows that looked 100% fine in mavericks, in yosemite they are completely broken.

Please any comment appreciated.

I have been using Preview for a few years, and found it was very easy to use it to fill in forms (adding text in the right boxes, signing it, etc), or to annotate articles and theses written by my students (adding annotation boxes quickly). Now:

- I cannot get the "Text Insertion" function to do anything at all (so I cannot use Preview to fill in forms anymore).

- When I insert a line, it always gets put in the middle of the screen and I have to move both ends one by one (which is very slow). I cannot draw a line by clicking on origin and destination anymore (as I have done in drawing software for more than 20 years!).

- When I insert my signature, it always gets put in the center and has to be moved, which is very slow (why no more click and drag a rectangle ?).

- Annotations also always get inserted in the center and have to be moved later to the desired location.

This is all very slow and annoying. Operations that were done with a single click now require two or three clicks and mouse motions. And for text insertion, I just cannot see how to do it at all.

Is there a way to mitigate at least some of these issues ?

For now, I try to survive with the older version of Preview, but I notice that it does not behave very well anymore when installed in Yosemite. I also sent feedback. But I do need a solution ASAP, so if anyone has ideas, I will appreciate it greatly!

Thanks!

I was able to get the Mavericks Preview app back from Time Machine. It's a little tricky.

The Yosemite Preview app cannot be moved or changed! To restore the Mavericks Preview, right click and save it to a location other than the Applications folder. Then rename the Mavericks Preview to something like Preview7. Place that in your Applications folder. You can now choose to change all .pdf file to open with the older version. Or you can leave things as they are and open .pdf files for annotation by right clicking and selecting Preview 7.

I am at a loss to understand why Apple would totally f--- up a useful feature. Whoever did this at Apple had to know that the change was terrible. Why this change was made is mystifying. Unless Apple intends to offer an improved, better Preview app for an additional fee.

Thanks. I was actually able to reclaim a previous version of Preview from a laptop that had not been updated yet to Yosemite.

Indeed, I find this change totally mystifying. I cannot understand why they made this change; even if they intend to sell a version of Preview, they did not really remove features from the App (I also found how to insert text, but it always go ---you guessed it--- in the middle of the frame!), they just made it very hard and painful to use, which makes for a terrible user experience: this does not seem to be the Apple's way of charging for things that used to be free...

Same Problem here!

All my study notes in the last 5 years are made in apple preview. Now they look horrible! See the example below.

It's annoying that this essential feature is messed up like this.

I'm not against further develompent of applications. But in this case the downwards compatibility should absolutely always have highest priority.

A lot of work is destroyed by neglecting this rule!

You could try Adobe Reader: http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=KLXME

Thanks for your help.

But thats not a solution. Apple should fix this. As soon as possible!
By the way: I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and since I have opened a file in preview 8.0 it's messed up even when I open it with Acrobat.

This is disastrous!

Same issues here. Apple please fire the person responsible. This is non sense.

Whats sad is Microsoft has been going out of its way to improve apps based on feedback. I swear every feedback (complaint) I sent about OneNote was fixed or added in the next update within months. Im sure other users had the same problems.

But apple seems to not have increased its workforce in proportion to increased number of customers. I never thought I would look at a friends cheaper PC with jealousy.

I'm going to start voting with my dollars. I hope they are reading this.... Bad job!

It's sad. It has been months since they created way worse product than the previous one. Seems they were not aware why the first product was created that way at first place. Preview lost essential functionalities.